Keywords: gas lights
Item 82133
Biddeford and Saco Gas Light Company stock certificate, ca. 1857
Contributed by: Allison Fecteau through Biddeford Historical Society Date: circa 1857 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper
Item 5514
Lewiston Gas Light Company, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Lewiston Media: Albumen print
Item 37457
Assessor's Record, 2-40 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Gas Holder
Item 37470
Assessor's Record, 2-40 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Gas Holder
Item 150665
Coal Shed for Lewiston Gas Light Company, Lewiston, ca. 1888
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1888 Location: Lewiston Client: Lewiston Gas Light Company Architect: George M. Coombs
Item 150663
Plans of Alterations for Building for Lewiston Gas Light Co., Lewiston, 1909
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Lewiston Client: Lewiston Gas Light Company Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects
Exhibit
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
Exhibit
A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 121-end
"… new inventions and changes in life -- trolleys, gas, electric street lights, and U.S. Mail boxes. He wrote again about his family's history in…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort
"However, the amount of gas per week a family got depended on how important the vehicle was. People were encouraged to ride together in cars."
Story
making light
by David Johansen
My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
